Simple Calorie Tracker vs Fitsin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Calorie Tracker
This app uses AI to help you track your calorie and macro intake. It offers features like barcode scanning, food search, and weight tracking. It also syncs with health platforms and provides personalized insights based on your data.
- AI meal photo scan
- Barcode scanning
- Food database search
- Manual macro logging
- Weight tracking with trend line
- Apple Health & Google Health sync
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
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Calvin is a simple calorie, macro, fitness, and health tracker that keeps the basics free. Track food, calories, macros, weight, workouts, steps, sleep, recovery, and health trends in one place — without ads or requiring an account. Barcode scanning and food search are free. Most calorie trackers moved them behind a subscription. Calvin does not. FREE, AND STAYING FREE • Barcode scanning for packaged foods • Food search with USDA Branded and Open Food Facts • Calorie, macro, protein, carb, fat, fiber, sugar, and sodium tracking • Fast manual logging, common foods, recents, usuals, one-tap repeat logging, and copy yesterday's log • Custom recipes • Weight tracking with a smoothed trend line and adaptive maintenance calories based on your real weight trend • Fitness tracking for workouts, steps, distance, and active time • Apple Health integration and automatic compatible smart-scale weigh-ins • Body fat and lean mass trends when available • Google Health connection • Sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, personal baselines, and a daily recovery score • Weekly and monthly recaps, plus year in review • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Apple Watch app and complication • Siri, Shortcuts, and CSV export FAST FOOD LOGGING Start typing a food and Calvin surfaces foods you've logged before. One tap logs it again. The built-in pantry makes everyday staples like eggs, apples, rice, and chicken quick to add. CALORIES & MACROS, YOUR WAY Calories stay front and center while macros and nutrients are there when you want them. Choose which metrics appear throughout the app. Turn calorie numbers off for a simpler on-track-or-over view. FITNESS, WEIGHT & MAINTENANCE CALORIES Keep workouts and daily activity alongside nutrition. Track weight with a smoothed trend line, and let Calvin adapt your maintenance-calorie estimate over time based on your real weight trend. HEALTH & RECOVERY Bring together sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, breathing rate, activity, and other available health signals. Calvin compares supported metrics with your recent baseline. Your daily recovery score summarizes how you're doing and highlights the signals that changed. APPLE HEALTH & SMART SCALES Connect Apple Health to bring supported fitness and health data into Calvin. Compatible smart-scale weigh-ins can appear automatically, including body fat and lean mass when your scale provides them. Connections are optional. APPLE WATCH Check calories remaining, your chosen macros, and recovery from the Calvin Apple Watch app and complication. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED. NO ADS. Use Calvin without creating an account. Your food log lives on your device, not on a Calvin server. Connecting Apple or Google is optional and does not upload or restore your food log. WEEKLY, MONTHLY & YEARLY TRENDS See patterns across nutrition and health data with weekly and monthly recaps and a year in review. CALVIN PLUS — AI MEAL SCANNER Calvin Plus adds AI-powered meal photo scanning and deeper insights. Take a photo and Calvin identifies foods on your plate and estimates their nutrition. It can account for things a photo may miss, like cooking oil, and asks before keeping uncertain additions. Adjust portions, add a missing item, or make a correction without starting over. Monthly and annual plans are available in your local App Store currency with a 3-day free trial. Barcode scanning, food search, calorie and macro tracking, fitness, weight, health features, and the other core features above remain free. SIMPLE BY DESIGN Calvin helps you understand nutrition, fitness, weight, and health without turning every meal into homework. Track what matters. Ignore what doesn't. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://calvinhealth.com/privacy
Fitsin
This app uses AI to identify Saudi and Gulf dishes from photos, providing calorie counts and nutritional information. It offers personalized coaching and community features to support users' health goals.
- AI-powered food recognition from photos
- Calorie and nutrition data for Saudi/Gulf dishes
- Personalized AI coach in Saudi Arabic
- Community features for shared goals
- Weight tracking and goal projection
- Workout and water tracking
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Snap your plate. Fitsin figures out the rest. Not a diet tracker. Fitsin is the calorie app built specifically for Saudi Arabia and the Gulf — one that actually knows kabsa, mandi, jareesh, harees, samboosa, and shawarma. It recognizes dishes from 11,800+ local restaurants, from Riyadh to Jeddah to Dammam. — The feeling — Open Fitsin and feel seen, not tracked. Not a number judging you — a caring friend saying "Yesterday you crushed it. Let's keep that going." Your AI coach Sami speaks in warm Saudi-friendly Arabic, not clinical nutrition-speak. — What makes us different — • Camera scan — snap any plate, get results in seconds • 11,800+ Saudi restaurants (Al Baik, Kudu, Al Tazaj, Burger King, McDonald's, Herfy, Domino's, and more) • 50+ Gulf dishes hand-tuned with real Saudi portion sizes (kabsa, mandi, jareesh, harees, mutabbaq, samboosa, shawarma) • AI coach "Sami" — daily messages in warm Saudi-colloquial Arabic • Squads — a shared daily streak with up to 5 friends; anyone can start one • Weight tracking with chart and goal-pace projection • Water, workouts, weight, journal — all in one place • Ramadan mode (tracks from maghrib to maghrib) + weight-loss injection mode — Free — Fitsin is free: every feature, with no in-app purchases. Photo scans with a line from Sami on every plate, Sami your AI coach, unlimited manual logging, barcode lookup, meal history and search, weight tracking, Fitsin's ready-made and sport training programs or workouts you build yourself, and squads you start or join. Fair-use daily limits keep the AI features running for everyone. — Privacy first — Your profile, meals, weight and workouts are saved to your account. Sign in on another phone and your profile and weight come with you, with the last 3 months of meals and the last 6 months of workouts; photos and measurements stay on the phone you saved them on. We do not sell or share your data with third parties for advertising. — Built with love in Saudi Arabia — Fitsin isn't a translated foreign app. It was built from scratch for the Saudi and Gulf market — with real portion sizes, real local dishes, and a voice that feels like home.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fitsin at none against Simple Calorie Tracker's 2. Fitsin also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Simple Calorie Tracker's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, rating, ratings volume and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Simple Calorie Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Fitsin asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Simple Calorie Tracker against 5.0 for Fitsin. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Simple Calorie Tracker ships an update every 2 days, Fitsin weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Calorie Tracker | Fitsin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Kevin Miguel Estrada Garcia | ABDULHAKEIM Sultan |
Customer experience
Simple Calorie Tracker
Fitsin
In-app purchases
Simple Calorie Tracker
- Calvin Plus3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Calvin Plus Annual3 Days trial$49.991 Year
Fitsin
No in-app purchases









